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Better raise interest rates so regular folk can't afford these prices. That will teach these corporations

Oh no alberta isn't as far right as all that. Take away the labels and they choose centrist policies all the time. Problem is you got 50 years of brand loyalty saying vote for the party with conservative in their name, times were good then! What we saw this election was more and more moderates rejecting them. Not quite enough yet but the ucp keep pushing their republican culture war, enrich the rich agenda and they will collapse. There is already trouble brewing internally which was in full view when kenney tried to play moderate. See what Smith does. She goes full right win the few progressives left will push back, she moderates things TBA will try and oust her.

Yeah other reasons like they are intentionally sabotaging the system as an excuse to privatize it. Took the best Healthcare in the country and tried their very best to break it.

The Alberta Party used to be that, now they are a nonfactor. Ex PCs torpedoed them in the last election by running them as spoilers. Now they are actually sitting further to the left than the Alberta NDP.

Doctors are already leaving. That's what happens when the government rips up their contract in a pandemic. She lost, but she's also managed to shake up things enough that a few thousand votes is then difference between a "united" conservative government and an NDP government. Considering her popularity is still higher than the parties they can't dump her without moving backwards.

At least it will be entertaining watching her try and juggle the fact that her party is not united. Even with them still winning seats in calgary the margins all shrank considerably. They can't continue like that but the second you try and moderate yourselves the rural yahoo's will have the knives out.

Seeing how it shook out in calgary it was close and a few of the bigger douchebags got tossed. The NDP made the campaign leader vs. Leader. Trou le for them are that conservatives care more about brand loyalty than who is actually leading. Smith immediately says blanket tax cuts and its all trudeaus fault in he acceptance speech so yay! Race to the bottom continues.

They'd be stupid to push notley out. She is more popular than the party and it takes a lot of overcome 50 years of "well we just vote conservative " The idea that only outright wins are good enough is ludicrous. That party has come a long way and to force her out probably sets it back a long way.

Receivers with iffy hands never work out.

God I always knew Mcgarity was gonna be useless.

Because your premise is wrong. BOLO is not poised to take wolitarksys spot. I like the guy but being taller doesn't make him better suited to that role.

Under rating wolitarsky big time there. Dude is rock solid and could have bigger numbers with a different role.

The irony is she could solve her own problems there..

On the big td run I said right there that he earned the 3rd spot . That acceleration was obscene. Just hits the jets and no one was going to catch him. What a weapon. Looked like a kick returner hitting the hole and blowing by everyone.

Tax cuts are as much deficit spending as spending on social programs are because both are argued that they have economic benefit and are worth the expense or loss of revenue. You can't simply apply blanket statements like tax cuts are not spending because they might possibly under the exact right circumstances be a net benefit. You can do that with any government spending. That's why you evaluate each item on its own based on its merit. And I know this, the theory of slashing taxes hasn't done anything other than widen the wealth gap and shrink the middle class. Anything that makes the middle class smaller is not good economic policy.

Yeah tax cuts disproportionately benefit the rich because the wealthy are already paying higher taxes. The "you don't want them to leave do you?" Is trickle down/supply side economics and it's proven to be ineffective. I would also argue that cutting taxes for lower and middle income types does less to keep money in their pockets than having well funded, well run social services does. Also important is well regulated private sector. The child care subsidy as an example does far more to keep money in my pocket than a pitiful sum of a tax break would.

Hey they need to find some players at linebacker at some point, guys are getting a wonderful opportunity to show their stuff.

Oh I see it's just poor execution not flawed ideology.gotcha. Good grief.

I know in the 70s and 80s they all believed that was the case, it's why we saw conservative governments the world over go all in on supply side economics.... but here is the thing, we're 40ish years out from these policies, we can see what they have done and SURPRISE! No-one credible believes it works they way they say anymore. It sounds goodnso people believe it, the reality is that the tax savings don't get passed down in any way. They get vacuumed up to the top and stay there.

Problem for government is that you can't ever cut enough programming to offset tax cuts so yes tax cuts are deficit spending. There is a cost associated with cutting taxes. There's a conservative mentality called starve the beast. You cut taxes first to make programs unsustainable and then they die because you don't have the tax revenue to keep them going. It's bullshit. Conservatives need to stop pretending that cutting taxes is any different than spending on social programs. Same result. Higher deficit and higher debt. Trickle down economics doesn't work and that fact has been proven time and time and time again. You can not find one source citing it's effectiveness.

Aww jeeze don't get him going...